The first table below looks at the demand for C# skills in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C# over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C#
Rank 3 8 13
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +5
Contract jobs citing C# 12 17 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 42.86% 23.94% 15.79%
As % of the Programming Languages category 80.00% 48.57% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 0
Average daily rate £330 £330 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+20.96% -11.42%
All Programming Languages
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15 35 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 53.57% 49.30% 82.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 13
Average daily rate £330 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.53% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C#
Staffordshire

C#
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Stoke-on-Trent C# Jobs Demand Trend

C#
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C# across the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent C# Daily Rate Trend

C#
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C# across the Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent C# Hourly Rate Trend

C#
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C#.

1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (95.00%) VB.NET
3 30 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 28 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 28 (70.00%) ASP.NET
5 27 (67.50%) XML
6 26 (65.00%) CSS
6 26 (65.00%) XSLT
6 26 (65.00%) SQL
7 24 (60.00%) jQuery
8 22 (55.00%) Ajax
9 20 (50.00%) HTML5
9 20 (50.00%) E-Commerce
9 20 (50.00%) N-Tier
9 20 (50.00%) SOA
10 19 (47.50%) XHTML
10 19 (47.50%) SEO
10 19 (47.50%) CSS3
10 19 (47.50%) Unit Testing
11 17 (42.50%) Degree
11 17 (42.50%) Web Application Development
12 13 (32.50%) Document Management
13 12 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (27.50%) TDD
15 9 (22.50%) .NET Framework
16 8 (20.00%) HTML
17 6 (15.00%) JIRA
17 6 (15.00%) AccuRev
18 4 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
18 4 (10.00%) Windows

C#
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing C# also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C#. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (70.00%) ASP.NET
3 27 (67.50%) XML
4 26 (65.00%) XSLT
4 26 (65.00%) CSS
5 24 (60.00%) jQuery
6 22 (55.00%) Ajax
7 20 (50.00%) HTML5
8 19 (47.50%) XHTML
8 19 (47.50%) CSS3
9 9 (22.50%) .NET Framework
10 8 (20.00%) HTML
11 1 (2.500%) WCF
11 1 (2.500%) WF
11 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (2.500%) REST
11 1 (2.500%) WinForms
11 1 (2.500%) XSD
11 1 (2.500%) Web Services
11 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.500%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 40 (100.00%) Developer
2 33 (82.50%) .NET Developer
3 19 (47.50%) ASP.NET Developer
3 19 (47.50%) SQL Developer
4 18 (45.00%) .NET Web Developer
4 18 (45.00%) Web Developer
4 18 (45.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 18 (45.00%) VB.NET Developer
5 4 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.000%) Website Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Windows Mobile Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Mobile Developer
7 1 (2.500%) Applications Developer
7 1 (2.500%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (7.500%) Blackberry
2 3 (7.500%) WURFL
3 2 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
1 4 (10.00%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (7.500%) Android
2 3 (7.500%) Apple iOS
2 3 (7.500%) BlackBerry OS
3 1 (2.500%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 20 (50.00%) SOA
2 19 (47.50%) SEO
2 19 (47.50%) Unit Testing
3 17 (42.50%) Web Application Development
4 13 (32.50%) Document Management
5 11 (27.50%) TDD
6 3 (7.500%) Web Development
7 2 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (2.500%) MVC
8 1 (2.500%) OOD
8 1 (2.500%) OOP
8 1 (2.500%) Workflow
8 1 (2.500%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (95.00%) VB.NET
2 28 (70.00%) JavaScript
3 26 (65.00%) SQL
4 3 (7.500%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) AccuRev
2 1 (2.500%) DevExpress